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Ka-ka-katanagari is mega cooool, but seriously, this anime is amazing. End of review. No, let me tell you something about it so you can see what's going on here. The main character Togame, on the orders of the shogun, is looking for a few legendary swords, unfortunately everyone she entrusts with this task fails, so with this problem she goes to the son of her father's killer who lives in exile on an almost deserted island with his sister, does it sound logical? this is just the beginning... , during negotiations to entrust this task to shichika (the son of her father's killer), she asks ... him to perform this task in exchange for money? recognition? fame? position? you are ridiculous, of course for love... and this is not about physical love, but romantic love, our hero is too stupid to come up with the idea of using her sexually, because as a recluse he is clearly not familiar with the concept of sex despite his adult age. I would like to invite you to review Katanagatari, if the number of seemingly illogical threads scares you, do not give up watching, I will try to convince you why it is worth it!

Story:
The story, as I have already mentioned, focuses on our two main characters: strategist togame and the swordmaster who does not use a sword, shichika. Seemingly and in reality, the plot is quite simple, the entire action focuses on an episodic pattern of episodes in which each episode involves obtaining one of the twelve swords. For this purpose, the heroes fight or negotiate with opponents every episode while traveling through different regions of feudal Japan, does it sound boring? I completely agree, but this is not the clue to our entire story..

Characters:
CHARACTERS CHARACTERS AND CHARACTERS are the most important part of this title. This is where the magic happens. At the beginning, it is worth mentioning that the story of the light novel on which the anime was based is the responsibility of none other than Nisio Isin, known from Monogatari, Medaka Box, Death Note Another Note: The Los Angeles BB Murder Cases or JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: OverHeaven. There are many issues that I would like to raise, but first of all it is worth mentioning the atmosphere of the series, which undoubtedly resembles the Monogatari series. What does this mean? Lots of dialogues, there are some classic monogatari inserts interrupting the action for fractions of a second. LOTS and LOTS of dialogues delivered very quickly, which often touch on topics that seem infantile or have no impact on the plot, but very effectively causing attachment to our characters at a quick pace, this is often visible in anime based on novels, but in the works of productions based on the nisio isin's novel this is especially noticeable. The characters are multidimensional and change or do not change, well... this is a field that the creators leave to interpretation. I assess the quality of the characters very positively, interestingly enough, this does not only apply to the main characters, our antagonists are also unique and well-developed for the time given to them, this can again be owed to the artistry of isin. I could write for a long time, but the point is not to read reviews but to watch anime, and I hope you will do that after reading the next paragraph, i.e....

Enjoyment:
The great joy of watching this anime is observing the apparent development of the main protagonists, especially interesting is the development of shichika who, at the beginning, appears to us as a dull killing machine that is incapable of recognizing faces, let alone experiencing feelings other than pain or hunger. During the series, we become a little more humanized. However, the greatest joy brings us the possibility of different interpretations of the series, because the topic discussed in the last episode is very complex, but I will not talk about it explicitly in order to avoid spoilers. However, I can say that the ending is brilliant, it gives us a lot of answers, but also explains a lot of interactions from the previous episodes, which seem to be very strange and far from reality. The series creates a brutally beautiful whole, provided that we do not give up halfway and watch until the last episode. It is also worth mentioning the sharpness of the author's pen, who, with apologies, doesn't give a fuck, he presents the action quite harshly, in which it doesn't matter whether the opponent is a child, a woman, or an entire village, they all die quite brutally. One of the last opponents, who is a child, is memorable. he is shot and begs for mercy, but his opponent puts a gun in his mouth and kills him. Moreover, the series is full of threads and motifs such as fate, ethics, the meaning of existence, human frailty, and love. There's a lot of it....

Overall:
However, I will recommend the series only to viewers who want to see something really new and unique in terms of content, or are fans of Isina's writing style, but the series will not work if we are looking for beautiful animation, which, incidentally, is not the best. The fights are sparse in details and tricks, so they are not the most interesting. I rate the soundtrack as a plus because it sets the mood well and builds tension.

Baccano is a work created in an unconventional way, i.e. it does not have a rigid time frame and is not limited to the real world, because we are dealing here with the theme of immortality, which in turn gives the creators a lot of room to show off when it comes to the possibilities of creating a storyline. In the first episode I really wanted to stop the screening because I didn't understand what was going on, the way of showing the action is very chaotic and gives us more questions and embarrassment than answers, which will be bothersome for the first few episodes, ... then the creators show the same scenes a few times so we'll get it What is it about.

Story:
The plot is about a group of different freaks whose destinies come together in a strange train, where various intrigues take place, such as kidnappings, murders, immortal children, torture, sadists, freaks, thieves, politicians, mafia, idiots, killers and stuff like that. Due to such diversity, it was not easy to maintain coherence and sense, especially if we add to it the way of presenting the action described in the introduction, but you can say that theoretically everything adds up to some strange twisted whole. The screening is quite ok, due to the mass of characters we like more or less, I liked "Rail Tracer" the most and "Jacuzi" the least, the speed of the action throughout the series remains at a stable, non-tiring level.

Characters:
There are many characters and everyone should like something, but I wouldn't count on their overwhelming depth, because they are typical one-dimensional characters, a psychopath behaves like a psychopath, an idiot, and so with everyone. on the plus side, there is their number, on the minus side, their development, moreover, the number of episodes effectively limits the possibility of their development, it is worth mentioning that the baccano manga was created in the years 2003-2016 and has 22 volumes, so there is no doubt that the story is for 10 seasons and not one, but for reasons unknown to me, the continuation did not appear, which is a pity because throughout the series I had the impression that the prologue was presented to me much longer and more interesting intrigue, as if the animated series was to be created for a very long time.

Enjoyment:
I had fun throughout the series quite ok, thanks to the fast pace of the action, the episodes were not boring, however, I was waiting for a very interesting finale, but I was disappointed because there was no special climax or it was not very expressive, the plot is engaging, the characters are less.

Overall:
I recommend the series to fans of action, brutality, mafia, and twisted intrigues, but I do not think that the series deserves the average rating of MAL users, because there is nothing amazing here, knocking you off your feet, once again I will emphasize that the series would be much better to watch knowing that we will be able to see much more, but we were given the introduction of the manga, so to speak, which begins a great adventure and shows us many possibilities for the development of the story and we get such a foretaste, the annoying fact is that the viewers are shown threads that may be interesting, but which I will never know unless I reach for the manga... well, that's what makes me treat the series as a manga advertisement, which is a pity because the potential is there.